The Secret Service is hoping to get its hands on software that will analyze sarcasm and false positives among comments on social media, according to The Washington Post.
No, really.
The agency posted a work order to its site on Monday seeking browser-...

According to a 2012 survey, about half of American parents don't have a will. And 100 percent of Americans have other things they'd rather think about. But aside from disposing of your assets after your death, a will designates legal guardianship over...

Police in Miramar will soon have their own collection of video evidence recorded with sophisticated technology at murder scenes, traffic crashes and fires.
This week, the agency's five-member, crime-scene technician unit, led by Supervisor Michael...

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BERKELEY -- Sen. Rand Paul, one of the foremost critics of the government’s domestic spying program, came to the birthplace of the free-speech movement Wednesday to deliver a searing indictment of the intelligence community and call for a sweeping congressional investigation of its activities.
Speaking just off the UC Berkeley campus, the Kentucky Republican depicted an overweening federal government prying into the most intimate reaches of people’s lives, from the books they purchase to the...

BERKELEY — Sen. Rand Paul, a leading critic of the government's domestic spying program, came to the birthplace of the free-speech movement Wednesday to deliver a searing indictment of the intelligence community and call for a sweeping congressional investigation of its activities.
Addressing a mostly student audience just off the UC Berkeley campus, the Kentucky Republican suggested the nation's surveillance agencies — "drunk with power" — were running roughshod over the...

To keep an eye on his child via his smartphone, Marc Gilbert installed Internet-connected video baby monitors in his home in Houston.
One evening, Gilbert heard a stranger's voice bellowing obscenities from the monitor. He disconnected the device after realizing that it had been hacked.
"I'm a pretty technical guy, and I thought I knew how all this stuff should be hooked up," said Gilbert, who has written several letters to his congressman and other elected officials, trying to bring the security...

They're called technology evangelists, those who trumpet benefits and trends in the Digital Age without the need of a fire-and-brimstone app.
Anne Arundel Community College adjunct professor Travis Bonfigli is a self-proclaimed technology evangelist. You need not know the Crofton resident's credentials to gauge his knowledge and passion for computers — particularly all things wireless — and his penchant for conveying complex technological jargon with a "Hooked on Phonics" simplicity.
But his...

DEAR JOYCE: You've previously mentioned the computer software technology known as applicant tracking systems (ATS) used by many employers. I detest technology and as a job seeker, why do I care? I can network my way to employment. -- M.W.
"Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) -- now at the very core of resume writing and job search -- have changed everything," says Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark, who recently conducted an ATS training seminar for professional resume writers.
Enelow and Kursmark are...